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70 - Elisabeth Camp: Emily Dickinson, Figurative Language, and Representation

70 - Elisabeth Camp: Emily Dickinson, Figurative Language, and Representation

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Elisabeth Camp is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers, where she
works on the philosophy of language, mind, and aesthetics. As she
puts it, her research “focuses on thoughts and utterances that
don’t fit standard propositional models.” Liz and Robinson spend
the first third of their conversation discussing the poetry of
Emily Dickinson and its connections to philosophy. They then move
on to the substantial corpus of Liz’s work, touching on frames—or
representational devices—various difficult-to-analyze speech acts
and devices like insinuation and metaphor, and the semantics of
maps. Keep up with Liz and her research at
http://www.elisabethcamp.org.

OUTLINE:

00:00 Introduction

3:30 Liz’s Interest in Figurative Language

12:03 Emily Dickinson’s “The first Day’s Night had come”

29:03 Emily Dickinson’s “This World is not Conclusion”

42:36 Mary’s Room as a Literary Creation

49:46 Imaginative Resistance

58:44 Frames as Representational Devices

1:07:34 Liz’s Taste in Problems

1:11:23 Speech Acts

1:16:41 John Searle

1:23:54 Insinuation

1:47:42 Sarcasm

1:51:00 Metaphors

2:19:42 Slurs

2:32:42 Metaphors in Science

2:40:53 Maps and Sentences

2:57:53 Animal Minds and Mental Language

3:05:37 Cognitive Science at Rutgers

Robinson’s Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com

Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of
mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations
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